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In a message dated 92198 7:28:17 AM, Guy Gusman wrote:

>Why don't you leave them outside in the garden. The stolons you saw are
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>normal for A. concinnum and each one will give a new tuber next spring i=f
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>left undisturbed. If you cut them, you will probably get no growth. Many
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>tuberlets severed before having their own roots never produce any shoot.


This is just what I asked about last week, having recently noticed that
tuberlets don't seem to do well if removed from the tuber. It's always a =great
temptation when you find offsets on an arisaema tuber to remove them and =try
to grow them separately. Avoid the temptation and allow the natural cours=e of
events to transpire. They'll detach from the parent tuber sooner or later=, and
then can be grown separately.

Trillium offsets, on the other hand, will usually do well on their own if
separated, but they have usually developed small rootlets by the time the=y are
found, and they are rhizomes, not tubers.

Jim McClements